Indiana State students produce ESPN3 broadcasts

[Jason Svoboda]

 

[Coach]

Video a vast improvement over the other stream that was pay-per-view. It's free & that's nice. However, lots of room for improvement. Should be a lot more intensive instruction and supervision of the announcers on the air. Should be an adult with each of them. Some have terrible on-air voices. Way too many old cliches being used. Lots of errors and in general they never seem to shut up. In comparison with the rest of the Valley ESPN3 feeds it is extremely bush league and typical Indiana State production.

 

[SycamoreFan317]

Video a vast improvement over the other stream that was pay-per-view. It's free & that's nice. However, lots of room for improvement. Should be a lot more intensive instruction and supervision of the announcers on the air. Should be an adult with each of them. Some have terrible on-air voices. Way too many old cliches being used. Lots of errors and in general they never seem to shut up. In comparison with the rest of the Valley ESPN3 feeds it is extremely bush league and typical Indiana State production.

1. First year for a lot of these kids, give them a break. If no significant improvement next year then criticism is warranted.
2. Exactly how many games have you done in your life time. I suspect it is not as easy as it looks.
3. Finding students that have a deep knowledge of the sport is a major issue, I know it is for our local high school.

 

[Hooper]

1. First year for a lot of these kids, give them a break. If no significant improvement next year then criticism is warranted.
2. Exactly how many games have you done in your life time. I suspect it is not as easy as it looks.
3. Finding students that have a deep knowledge of the sport is a major issue, I know it is for our local high school.

This has to stop. You do not put student announcers on a national, web-televised game with the ESPN moniker and expect to be taken seriously. Alumni and donors are watching, as well as fans from the other school. Do we come across as a first-class operation on these telecasts? I know the kids are trying/learning, and some weren't half-bad, but some were embarrassingly God-awful. Of course it's hard to call a game 317, that why you pay a professional to do it! For God's sake how broke is our athletic department?????

 

[Sycamore Proud]

If I remember the ESPN agreement the programming was to be student produced. That means using students for all positions in my opinion. Some of the schools did NOT do it this way. It wasn't too difficult to determine this. I found it easily done in less that an minute. If ISU synced Fritz and his color people to the webcast, ours would look very good too. Our off air people did pretty well. The weak link in our presentations was the on air talent. That takes time to develop and you can't throw inexperienced people on the air and have a very good product. ISU may have looked bad because we did it the right way. Given timne it will be better. Right now the most pressing need we have is to locate and polish on air talent with a sports background.

 

[BlueSycamore]

If I remember the ESPN agreement the programming was to be student produced. That means using students for all positions in my opinion. Some of the schools did NOT do it this way. It wasn't too difficult to determine this. I found it easily done in less that an minute. If ISU synced Fritz and his color people to the webcast, ours would look very good too. Our off air people did pretty well. The weak link in our presentations was the on air talent. That takes time to develop and you can't throw inexperienced people on the air and have a very good product. ISU may have looked bad because we did it the right way. Given timne it will be better. Right now the most pressing need we have is to locate and polish on air talent with a sports background.

I don't think it is being done "the right way". It is being done the ISU "cheap way". Other Valley schools didn't do it on the "cheap".

 

[SycamoreFan317]

I don't think it is being done "the right way". It is being done the ISU "cheap way". Other Valley schools didn't do it on the "cheap".

Do the other schools offer a degree in communication? It is good experience for the students. The first time in front of a class room most teachers suck also but with proper guidance and practice they get better. It does not matter if it is on ESPN3 or Sycamore vision if it is webcast then it is out there for the whole world to see and hear. Should we take student run radio stations off of the air because the DJ is not as good as the local professional. The down fall is lack of in depth understanding of the game, hopefully this gets better over time. I turn the sound down and just watch the video.

 

[Hooper]

Do the other schools offer a degree in communication? It is good experience for the students. The first time in front of a class room most teachers suck also but with proper guidance and practice they get better. It does not matter if it is on ESPN3 or Sycamore vision if it is webcast then it is out there for the whole world to see and hear. Should we take student run radio stations off of the air because the DJ is not as good as the local professional. The down fall is lack of in depth understanding of the game, hopefully this gets better over time. I turn the sound down and just watch the video.

I would venture to say all Valley schools have a Comm program of some kind--but watching ESPN 3 I don't think I saw any Valley school use student announcers. Drake even got Adam Emmenecker for color commentary! SIU used local WSIU talent, and if memory serves Loyola, Wichita, and UNI broadcasts were all very professional. Why didn't we use Penske (or similar, I know he left) for PBP with a local coach or former ISU player for color? It can't be THAT expensive. Are we really that broke? I love ISU and love our students but you just don't put them on a national (worldwide actually) ESPN internet broadcast IMO.

 

[SycamoreFan317]

I would venture to say all Valley schools have a Comm program of some kind--but watching ESPN 3 I don't think I saw any Valley school use student announcers. Drake even got Adam Emmenecker for color commentary! SIU used local WSIU talent, and if memory serves Loyola, Wichita, and UNI broadcasts were all very professional. Why didn't we use Penske (or similar, I know he left) for PBP with a local coach or former ISU player for color? It can't be THAT expensive. Are we really that broke? I love ISU and love our students but you just don't put them on a national (worldwide actually) ESPN internet broadcast IMO.

To answer your main question are we really that broke? Yes, I think we are. The athletic department had to take a loan from the MVC to buy the equipment because it didn't have the money. People on this board bought basketball uniforms and are currently raising money for ipads for basketball. Not a very pretty picture financially.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

I would venture to say all Valley schools have a Comm program of some kind--but watching ESPN 3 I don't think I saw any Valley school use student announcers. Drake even got Adam Emmenecker for color commentary! SIU used local WSIU talent, and if memory serves Loyola, Wichita, and UNI broadcasts were all very professional. Why didn't we use Penske (or similar, I know he left) for PBP with a local coach or former ISU player for color? It can't be THAT expensive. Are we really that broke? I love ISU and love our students but you just don't put them on a national (worldwide actually) ESPN internet broadcast IMO.

Yes.

Speaking of, $255 away from finishing. :lol:

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